Difference between revisions of "Roderick"
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* Avrel Stonecraft: corrupt NASA official. | * Avrel Stonecraft: corrupt NASA official. | ||
* Helen Boag: Dean of Persons at Minnetonka University. | * Helen Boag: Dean of Persons at Minnetonka University. | ||
| − | * Professor Rogers: sociologist and | + | * Professor Rogers: sociologist and committee manipulator. |
* Jane Hannah: anthropologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of mythology. | * Jane Hannah: anthropologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of mythology. | ||
* Aikin, Dollsly, Fethers, Tarr: pseudoscience scholars competing with Fong for funding. | * Aikin, Dollsly, Fethers, Tarr: pseudoscience scholars competing with Fong for funding. | ||
Revision as of 23:27, 4 August 2016
These are notes for the Roderick novels by John Sladek. They were first published separately as Roderick, or the Education of a Young Machine (1980) and Roderick at Random, or the Further Education of a Young Machine (1983), before being reissued together (as Sladek originally intended) as The Complete Roderick (2001).
Characters
- Roderick: learning system.
- Dan Sonnenschein: young computer science genius.
- Lee Fong: head of the Roderick project.
- Ben Franklin: researcher on the Roderick project.
- Leo Bunsky: researcher on the Roderick project, presumed dead.
- Allbright: alcoholic poet, friend of Dan.
- Dora: student, friend of Allbright.
- Avrel Stonecraft: corrupt NASA official.
- Helen Boag: Dean of Persons at Minnetonka University.
- Professor Rogers: sociologist and committee manipulator.
- Jane Hannah: anthropologist with an encyclopedic knowledge of mythology.
- Aikin, Dollsly, Fethers, Tarr: pseudoscience scholars competing with Fong for funding.
- Mister O'Smith: bionic cowboy assassin.
- Ma and Pa Wood
- Indica Dinks
- Hank Dinks